Why is there not a single women president in US history ever?

15 comments

1. None of us can pass the background check.

2. Patriarchy.

3. sexism or something idk

4. Well, women couldn’t even vote until about 100 years ago, and change is slow. Sexism is still rampant in American society, no matter how much people want to claim otherwise.

   And politics, unfortunately, is a slow-moving field. Due to the fact that many politicians are super old and can stick around for ages, change doesn’t come quick.

5. Because the majority of voters are old white Republicans. They turn out in droves. And they don’t like women. Look at the age/race breakdown for almost all US elections and it skews heavily old/white.

6. There still aren’t a large percentage of women in high political offices like the senate or governor or even congress and that’s where most presidential candidates become prominent enough to win votes. I think the first time a woman even won a primary was Shirley Chisholm and that was the 70’s and then in the 80’s Shirley Chisholm was a vice presidential candidate for a major party and then there were no serious candidates that made a national impact until Hilary except for the early 2000’s when Carol Moseley Braun was invited to a debate but didn’t win any primaries.

7. Not enough candidates

8. I feel like thats a question for men.

9. Because they aren’t old, white men.

10. Why would anyone want to take the helm of a sinking ship??

11. HeR eMaiLs!!

12. Still now, fewer women try.
    Before, a lot of sexism.

13. Because US is one of the most misogynistic countries on earth.

14. In all honesty I think the 1st female governor elected in elected in the US was like in Wyoming in 1921 and then the next female governor wasn’t until like the state of Washington in 1979 in reality we really haven’t had women in true positions of power in this country until the eighties with the Secretary of State I think condilisa rice was the 1st if I have her name wrong my bad for name wrong my bad I’m literally just trying to recall this at like 3 o’clock in the morning I’m not going to Google it…. But just in general women really weren’t involved in politics in a political situation in seriousness until the sixties are the seventies when yes when it became more socially acceptable for them to run for office and we’ve been slowly transitioning towards it we now have a female vice president we nearly had a female president with Hillary Clinton I would imagine in the next few decades we will have at least one female president of the United States it’s just culture has shifted slowly and while on the fringes th fringes things can shift faster the senders the center sent tends to move a bit more slowly personally so while some people might be willing to scream the patriarchy others have to remember that there were many women that were also against women running for office it took a while to change minds both of men and women so that they would elect female candidates

15. Because I just recently became old enough to run.